vignette.

I wanted to sleep in today. Despite being awake at least a couple hours past midnight, minimum, on some accursed autopilot I first saw the clock at about 9AM instead. Blissful return to slumber immediately evaded me on account of the scourge that is allergies, which is frankly sort of bullshit because it’s the middle of winter.

Normal weather. Super duper normal weather. Not cause for concern at all.

Anyway, after attempting in vain to sleep again, to the screen I locked my eyes. I stumbled across a clip of unsourced winter shenanigans, which I sent to a friend less familiar with the joys and toils of snow season. The song “Gabriela” has been on loop in my head since last night; the music video is a delight. There’s probably a similar glee in telenovela acting as there is to throwing another human being through a table as there is to chucking a heap of snow off a bridge onto crackling ice several feet below. My main takeaways from the winter video, though, was 1) I should send this to $friendInQuestion and 2) aren’t their hands cold?!

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I had the idea a few days back of doing some kind of Monthly Mini-project; in which, while I am not creatively hooked on anything in particular, I attempt to lasso some portion of my artbrain around a small-scale concept that I work on for the month. For several years now my new-year-malaise thought has centered roughly around the idea I need to be weirder I need to do more strange and interesting shit, and (tragically!) strange and novel shit does not magically float my way upon a cloud.

At one point recently I did a small blogpost reskim of things I’ve written around this time of year previously, and I do sound a bit like a broken record.

Anyway.

Blender is 3D modeling software, but it is capable of 2D and apparently even video-compositing. Since discovering these things about it I have yet to use it for either purpose, but I would like to learn! Have not had the ideas in mind to warrant jumping in the deep end like that. Maybe this would suit?

back to the present.

There’s a book on a table in my room, Max Gladstone’s Three Parts Dead, which I’ve read a very small portion of over the past several days. I like what I’ve read! It’s also weirdly difficult to “justify” Sitting Down And Reading for a prolonged period of time, when I could be coding or writing or doing a shitton of reading but in the medium social media posts and/or Wikipedia rabbitholes.

There are other snippets in the draft above, but they speak for themselves I think.

• lennon chess short. Charming! Bit odd (not in a bad way) to see Pixar-styled characters doing war violence. I never actually noticed that’s what the song lyrics were, so mission accomplished.
• deviantArt post data → timeline, a frankly kind of unholy endeavor to the apparent benefit of no one except maybe myself. I think maybe I am not going to fucking manually mirror all of that. Just, like, some of it? Bits and pieces.
• Woźniakowski makes extremely cool things. Some additional highights in a previous post!
• recent uploads on the art version of myspace: RP art, random headshot, RP art (crosscanon ed.), old character, bug lizard, old character (slightly redesigned), fanart. By virtue of having linked these on my site they are now entitled to a personal mirror eventually.
• The Process:
  
  Being able to finish weeks worth of work in one hyperfocused mega-session is pretty cool, right up until it slams up against the physical limitations of the human body.
• patch notes: colophon now uses an archived link to the CloudCannon Jekyll date tutorial; added hex color blender.
• public results of sketchfile backup & blender futzing ???TBA, maybe, possibly never or mayhaps in 10+ years. The “woofs” and Wolvden art might get itself a page soonish, though, since unlike Flight Rising I don’t have like a decade of scattered drawings to sift through.